Letters

Notes from the desk, building Surmado, thinking about AI and authorship, and the work in between.

• We Run the Site. You Run Your Business. September 2026 · reprint Founder letter on why Surmado Sites runs the website end-to-end, and what a roofer, a San Diego restaurant, and Ohtani have to do with it.
• Why We Built the Easiest Code Review Tool on the Market May 2026 · reprint A founder letter on building Surmado Code Review for founders, marketers, and small teams shipping AI-generated code.
• Code Review Isn't Just for Engineers Anymore May 2026 · reprint AI made everyone a coder; this letter argues marketers and founders need an automated review layer before code goes live.
• What Makes Scout Different April 2026 · reprint Scout is not a ChatGPT wrapper — a product architecture letter on multi-model orchestration and what the stack actually does.